Miriam Esther Brailey

Miriam Esther Brailey (January 28, 1900 – April 8, 1976) was an American physician and epidemiologist.

Biography Brailey was born in East Barnard, Vermont. In 1922 she graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a major in zoology. She went on to study at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. While there, she studied with Wade Hampton Frost, working on his tuberculosis studies. Much of their data came from the Harriet Lane Children's Home on the grounds of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she later served as director. Her thesis titled "A preliminary analysis of certain records of the tuberculosis clinic of the Harriet Lane Home: I. Tuberculosis infection in children of tuberculous families; II. The history to adolescence of children shown to be tuberculous during infancy " was unpublished.